Black-Figure Band Cup: Stags and Panthers (c. 540 BCE): Art, History and Details

Black-Figure Band Cup: Stags and Panthers (c. 540 BCE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The two sides of this drinking cup are nearly identical, each with a reserved band holding a grazing stag between two panthers. A single palmette appears on either side of each handle, while a reserved circle inside the bowl holds a dot within concentric circles.

Object facts

• Title: Black-Figure Band Cup: Stags and Panthers
• Date: c. 540 BCE
• Culture: Greece
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: ceramic
• Dimensions: Diameter: 20.3 cm (8 in.); Overall: 13.7 x 26.5 cm (5 3/8 x 10 7/16 in.); Diameter of foot: 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.)
• Collection: GR - Greek
• Department: Greek and Roman Art
• Accession number: 1993.111

A detail from the museum

Band cups feature figural decoration only within a reserved band aligned with the handles.

Collection credit

Bequest of Harley C. Lee and Elizabeth K. Lee

Further reading listed by the museum

• Beazley Archive. n.d. Beazley Archive Pottery Database. Oxford: Beazley Archive.
• “1993 Annual Report.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (July 1994): 143–218.
• Neils, Jenifer, and Gisela Walberg. Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, OH]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.

View the collection record

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